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Amazon Athena



Amazon Athena is a serverless, interactive analytics service built on open-source frameworks, supporting open-table and file formats. Athena provides a simplified, flexible way to analyze petabytes of data where it lives. Analyze data or build applications from an Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) data lake and 30 data sources, including on-premises data sources or other cloud systems using SQL or Python. Athena is built on open-source Trino{_target=”_blank”} and Presto{_target=”_blank”} engines and Apache Spark{_target=”_blank”} frameworks, with no provisioning or configuration effort required.

Below is a workflow of Amazon Athena:

Amazon Athena workflow

While working with Amazon Athena, it’s essential to review a variety of optimization strategies. Here’s a handy guide shared by Amazon for top 10 performance tuning tips for Amazon Athena.




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